'A lot of modern fiction tends to be "slice of life..."'
'A lot of modern fiction tends to be "slice of life" stuff in which a story has no apparent ending to it. The reader reaches the end and says "Huh?" The well-written crime novel also pits the reader against the writer in a challenge to see if the reader can put the pieces together before the writer does it for him. Consequently, the crime novel appeals to a large and well-educated group of people who tend to be the big readers in our society in any case.'
Elizabeth George in Publishing News